each thing ripens its own space

The Blue Cube Features
Site Responsive Installation
by Artist Tina Linville

Ventura’s new contemporary art gallery The Blue Cube will feature a one-opening-night-only installation by artist Tina Linville. This art will be created specifically for the space. Thursday, December 4 from 5:57 to 9:12 pm. Join other art enthusiasts to see the gallery transformed into a colorful space with stretched materials and fabric. This will be the fourth show this year for Ventura’s new Blue Cube Art Space which is dedicated to showing non-traditional contemporary art.

Borrowing its name from a poem by Canadian writer Lisa Robertson,”Each thing ripens its own space” is a site responsive installation by Linville incorporating two studio-based artworks into a larger environment within the Blue Cube Gallery. Different than an installation conceived for a specific place and pre built, this site-responsive installation highlights the way space can inform the nature of what an artwork becomes. Through response and revision, within the physical and psychological space of the gallery, the artwork matures to fruition.

For Linville, the challenge of working in unfamiliar conditions over a short period of time is a fruitful experience forcing her to rely on improvisation. Working with and against architecture and time, “Each thing ripens its own space” brings the concept of the art making process to the forefront so the mystery of the human tendency to create can be observed and explored.